Hospitalizations and deaths due to pertussis in children from 1996 to 2013☆

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES: To assess temporal trends of hospitalizations and deaths from pertussis in Brazilian children in the period of 1996-2013. METHODS: This was a descriptive ecological study of temporal trends, based on the DATASUS database. The number of hospitalizations and deaths from pertus...

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Main Authors: Janayne F. Mançaneira, Juliana R. Benedetti, Linjie Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-02-01
Series:Jornal de Pediatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0021-75572016000100040&lng=en&tlng=en